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3/01/2010

Ubuntu 9.10 does not boot up after hibernate!!!

I've been running Ubuntu 9.10 desktp on my HP nx6120 notebook with some success for a little while now. It performs well for my TeX work, occasional web-browsing, VPN, RDP and e-mails. The GUI is enhanced using Mac4Lin. I loved the hibernate feature until late this afternoon when it refused to bootup after hibernating. I would get the splash screen and then nothing... curses!!!.

I managed to find a work-around but am still not sure what the problem was:

Boot up the machine with a rescue CDROM

Confirm the root partition for the Ubuntu install (in my case it was /dev/sda8, although I only have IDE drives)

Boot up the machine and wait for the GRUB prompt

Press "e" to edit the entry

Replace the "root=UUID..." with "root=/dev/..." on the "linux" line entry